Tuesday, October 27, 2009

After a handful of games in which Janne has under performed he was officially placed on the injured list and is currently not on the AK Bars active Roster as they are Battling Mettalurg for their next game... No word on how serious the injury is yet, but we will keep the Pesonation informed...

Quickly the main things: Janne says that he has good feelings about his past 2,5 months in Kazan. Everything has worked as supposed and no problems so far. The town and its people has been nice. All things has been like expected..Then the reporter asks his gf :P what is the best thing in Kazan and the answer is "what it could be ... propably the restaurants and our home area.. and friends ..."

And about his own playing he says it has been quite ok but could be better, and the team playing has varied as well. About KHL he says that the game playing is very high level and skilled, though games and so on. And he expects to play the whole season in Kazan.

Something like that. The other player seen in the video is Jarkko Immonen (was 2nd in points last season in SM-Liiga).

Janne Quick Bio

Janne won four Finnish championships in 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2008. In 2008 he also scored the most points in the SM-Liiga with 34 goals and 44 assists for 78 points in only 56 games. In addition to being the league's current scoring champion, Pesonen was the SM-Liiga Rookie of the Year in 2003-04, and was the playoff most valuable player (MVP) in 2007.

Originally drafted in 2004 in the NHL Entry draft by the Anaheim Ducks in the 9th round. In 2008 Janne was signed to a 1 year contract by the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Conn Smythe + Stanley > Hart + Pearson

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